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Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy

yanis_t — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:24:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069942

Points: 145

# Comments: 24

New comment by yanis_t in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

yanis_t — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:01:16 +0000

For anyone interested, there’s another part of the Starlink besides the satellites and your dish - ground stations (gateways) [].

These are the large clusters of antennas that communicate with the satellites and connect the Starlink network to the Internet on Earth. Looks like one of these was set on fire.

https://starlink.com/support/article/45d1d256-171e-0f67-4895...

New comment by yanis_t in "Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds"

yanis_t — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:48:42 +0000

Would be very glad if anyone explained to me if and why this is revolutionary.

New comment by yanis_t in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

yanis_t — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:58:59 +0000

I was just recently thinking about how we have built a lot of abstractions that makes it easier for a human to do useful stuff but they usually come with their own set of trade-offs.

And now in the LLM era, there's is less and less justification for using those very high level abstractions, and we'll see many of them die out in the upcoming years. React (native or not) is not exception.

New comment by yanis_t in "The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI"

yanis_t — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:12:28 +0000

Vibe ROI-ing

New comment by yanis_t in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

yanis_t — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:31:28 +0000

Is that he model that supposed to be Pro, but then they changed their mind?

New comment by yanis_t in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

yanis_t — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:01:17 +0000

As others mentioned retyping is not fun. My approach is to let it write the code, but only in small portion. Not "implement this feature". But "open this file and make these changes". Each small change is easily reviewable and often times I end up asking it about better options and iterate a bit. Still feels like I'm in charge. Still feels like I'm learning stuff.

New comment by yanis_t in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

yanis_t — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:27:02 +0000

The benchmarks are not particularly impressive. I suppose they needed to release something since the long pause. But not clear why would I use it now.

New comment by yanis_t in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

yanis_t — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:35:02 +0000

I suppose it's a good time to encourage people trying out pi[1] with any cheap model from the openrouter rankings page[1].

[1] https://pi.dev/ [2] https://openrouter.ai/rankings

New comment by yanis_t in "The Coming Loop"

yanis_t — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:32:15 +0000

Two problems: I will not get my pleasure, and I will still not know how the code works.

New comment by yanis_t in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

yanis_t — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:30:49 +0000

Are you implying using their brains?

New comment by yanis_t in "The Coming Loop"

yanis_t — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:55:56 +0000

I keep thinking about at which point I should not force myself into the loop. As a developer I really like working on the code structure, making it clearer, thinking about good abstraction, breaking into modules, etc. I really take pleasure in it. At the same time I understand that at some point I am becoming the limiting factor.

If the point of the software is benefit people, should I still care about how the code looks.

Right now, I still think that the answer is yes, but in 3 years? in 10 years?

New comment by yanis_t in "Midjourney Medical"

yanis_t — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:11:19 +0000

I can only applaud. Regardless of whether this device is possible, or economically viable, this is a brave move and a bold vision. Taking bigger risks is what what makes the advances possible.

New comment by yanis_t in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

yanis_t — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:50:58 +0000

Exactly. It was looking as though Apple understood this. But now they gave in and called it Siri AI.

New comment by yanis_t in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

yanis_t — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:04:57 +0000

Exactly this. You can't have a competitive industry while at the same time heavily redistributing wealth to the point where people don't have any incentives at all.

New comment by yanis_t in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

yanis_t — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:00:50 +0000

> A total of €13.5 million has been allocated to the project.

This is not even funny. If you want a competitive AI industry, you need to invest much more heavily in infrastructure first, building models second.

New comment by yanis_t in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

yanis_t — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:48:26 +0000

Those Mars bases are getting closer and closer.

New comment by yanis_t in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

yanis_t — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:19:14 +0000

Never did. Having been using Github Copilot since its launch (as autocomplete, they have a Vim plugin) and claude code for agentic coding.

New comment by yanis_t in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

yanis_t — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:16:15 +0000

$60b is crazy.

Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts.

They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it.

If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI.

What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

New comment by yanis_t in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

yanis_t — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:29:18 +0000

I grown up in the 1990s, so as a teen I had access to the wild west of the decentralized internet in all its scary glory. It was pretty cool.

But nowadays as a parent I see, instagram, tiktok are much more scarier for the damage they make psychologically and mentally to our kids. And with the AI slop it's only going to go downhill. So yes, it's a great decision, and other countries should follow the lead.